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Shane:
No, the drop menu showed all drive letters. I just put out v1.10.0 of the registry backup and I will also update the version in WR on monday. I updated it to where it will auto change the vss letter to use if it is already in use :-)

You dont have to use vss, the fallback method is just fine and is the one I use since I have it set to backup at startup (Only allowing 1 backup per day). I use fallback since it is way faster than vss :-)

Shane

MerleOne:
Thanks, you're right, all letters are present.  I have chosen Z: as default VSS drive.  If I may insist on something, it would be nice if the installation of a new version could preserve the settings of the former one, when applicable. Maybe it's already the case, all the better !

Regarding VSS, or Fallback, it seems to me that now you consider VSS as the Fallback method, which is indeed faster and apparently safer.  I also remember that you indicated VSS was the best method in previous versions.

Shane:

--- Quote ---If I may insist on something, it would be nice if the installation of a new version could preserve the settings of the former one, when applicable. Maybe it's already the case, all the better !
--- End quote ---

The installer wont overwrite the settings.ini file so you should be good. Remember that the Registry backup can be downloaded and installed by itself as well :-)


--- Quote ---Regarding VSS, or Fallback, it seems to me that now you consider VSS as the Fallback method, which is indeed faster and apparently safer.  I also remember that you indicated VSS was the best method in previous versions.
--- End quote ---

Microsoft says that VSS is the best way to back it up, and I normally use it. But when the computer is starting up and the drive is already under a heavy load trying to load up everything then trying to do a registry backup at startup slows things down because VSS is working away on the drive making a shadow copy of the files. So instead I simply use the fallback method which is just a API call to windows to ask it to save the registry to a new file. :wink:

So far though I have yet to ever run into a problem backing up the registry using the fallback method (The API) perhaps it is only really loaded up servers that might ever run into the problem, it is hard to tell.

Shane

MerleOne:
Thanks.  Actually I had an issue using the fallback method once or twice, the program said some parts of the registry were not saved correctly.  But it only happened so many times.

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